367 Quotes by Harry S. Truman

It isn’t polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership – men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

Canada is a broad land – broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage – the more the minimum, the better.

I don’t want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.